Routes

I am going to try and keep track of my routes along the way, so I made a new blog for that.

Crazy Horse Buttress

Finally we found our way to the crag, crazy horse buttress. Fantastic climbing at all grades. I think I did one of the best 6a's I have done to date. Slightly steep, big jugs, sustained all the way, fantastic.



To top off the climbing, we rented a moped to get around. Its great fun - flying down the road, towards the crag, on a moped.

sports climbing with an alpine start

Who would have thought it? But at 4 am on 8th November, we got up and dragged ourselves to the airport to catch a flight to Alicante. With sleepy eyes, we stumbled our way onto the plane and sat back, hoping for a few hours of shut eye. What we got instead was an amazing sunrise.....

Adventure in Turkey

Well for a bit a change a gang of us decided to go sports climbing in Turkey and a change is what we got....

Its an amazing place. Blue skies, sunshine & warm weather... ahem at least that is what we expected... thunderstorms & rain .... in fact a 36 hour thunder storm was closer to the truth.

Nevertheless we had a great time. We stayed in a little campsite, buried underneath a pommegranate garden, overlooking the main crag. The climbing is mainly situated beside small town, Geyikbiryiri (of course I can't spell it), near Antalya. But there is more climbing about 2 hours south near Olympus.
The climbing is sharp and only newly developed, but nevertheless it is great with a wide variety.

Driving was certainly a highlight of the trip. Lets say the Turkey appear only to use the rules of the road (if they even exist) as a mere guideline. Indictors are a luxury and should only be used when absolutely necessary. Ramps are for overtaking on, they give you that added lift when travelling fast. Lanes on road show the minimum number of lanes, not the maximum number... Traffic lights are a free for all at night, and well pretty much the same during the day.

Weekday Climbing

With a lacking of employment these days - midweek climbing seems to be the desired alternative. A day on the main face in Glendo followed by a day in Dalkey. Glendo turned out to be a rather pleasent afternoon of routes on forest ledge, however a a silly choice of abseil, saw us abbing through a wet a slimy waterfall... hmmm.. we should have known better - 2 abseils are a necessity, it can't be done in one.

Thursday saw myself, Diarmuid and Domhnall heading out to Dalkey for a sunshine filled afternoon of playing on new routes. Domhnall worked and finally got a new line between Jameson Ten and Tom Tit, E2/3 6a, Tasmanian Devil it takes the true line up the middle.



The blackberries are in full flurish, I think it is time to go picking and make us some pies, yummy :)